Kristin Hersh

If you've been on my little music distribution for a while, you might remember that her 'Strange Angels' album was one of my top picks from 1998. Since then, she's put out a collection of traditional folk lullabies (which is available only from online music e-tailers like CDNow) and released a series of MP3-only demos and unreleased songs from her website. There's something about her passions and melancholy phrasing that absolutely click with me - even though my heart is small, soft, and squishy, she finds some way to break it.